For Artists and Photographers that want to follow another path

I am going to mention this tomorrow during the workshop with Scott Bourne, but I get inspiration and ideas from a great variety of sources outside of photography. Unfortunately, I find that photographers stay in the bubble too much and keep reading the same sort of thing. I put together “Trey’s Book List” here on the site for you. It’s filled with all types of subject matter from genetics to physics. For example, if I ever run into a fellow artist that also has a passion for Richard Feynman, we always become fast friends!

Another Nice Testimonial for HDR Spotting

I am glad some more people are getting into the private beta of HDRspotting.com – as always, the goal of the site is to showcase interesting HDRs from all over the world to drive more traffic and attention to YOUR website. It’s built on top of something we call an “Attention Generation Engine”. As we tweak all this out and iterate, we hope to open it up to more and more people!

There are invite codes out there – just ask around on Twitter or look in the HDR groups in Flickr or FB — NOTE – I do not give them out – so sorry I can’t help you (by design!).

Since uploading my images on HDR Spotting the attention I get on my work increases tremendous! This encourages me to upload one image every single day, which is a great challenge due to the matter of only sending my best images. So HDR Spotting is pushing me further in my work and the comments I get from the community refuels my creativity!

Daily Photo – Grand Central Station

When I was in NYC a few weeks ago for the book party, I took some time one rainy evening to invade Grand Central Station without a tripod pass. I did not even know I could get such a thing easily, because the process for picking one up requires looking in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’. (tip of the hat to the great Douglas Adams).

But even with my illegal tripod in hand, and in cool and casual defiance of the three-legged police, I strode around Grand Central Station taking photos with reckless aplomb. I really wanted to get on a train and go somewhere! But, I didn’t… I just walked out the exit and right into another amazing photographic situation!

I love this photo – I have been to this station before but never got a photo of the interior. Next time I am in NYC this will certainly be on my shoot list. Can’t believe you got away with using a tripod! Good job

Fabulous photo! I’m waiting for it to turn into a video and have people come crawling out of the woodwork to dance! How cool would that be? HDR dancing video!!! Are you working on that?

Adam Schmid

Great shot as always Trey! I am surprised to hear that you need a “tripod pass” in order to take shots with a tripod in there. It’s such a bummer that so many places do not allow tripods. So many great photos go uncaptured due to these stupid tripod rules. Glad to hear though that you didn’t get caught by the tripod police and were able to take such great photos!

I’m finding the same sort of thing with HDRspotting. Initially I wondered whether I’d be able to find anyone who thought my images were worthy of an invite code, but I managed to grab one. Then I wondered whether I would be able to get any images accepted. As it happens, nearly all the images I submit get in the “featured” category, with one “editor’s choice”. And even better, that one is currently #6 on “popular”. This has rekindled my photography interest and I’ve learned a lot from the site about composition.

Like the book list as well. Some of the most interesting people I’ve known in my (50) years have been techno-nerds who have also been artists. Few and far between unfortunately. I’m sort of in this category, writing software and running a software company for a living (just my wife and I). I’m definitely a techno-nerd but the artist part is still open to question..

I have tried an HDR here a few times but the activity of people are enough to disrupt a photo with a low ISO . My thoughts are that you were there relatively early /Late because Normally , You would not be able to see the floor . There are more people here at this location daily that In most small states .